Report: Data Center Ethernet Switching Goes Bare Metal
Infonetics has forecast that bare metal switches will grab an increasing share of the data center port market.
Technology market research firm Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc., has forecast that bare metal switches, which decouple hardware from software and offer greater agility and cost savings over traditional data center switches, will make up just under a quarter of all data center ports shipped worldwide in 2019, up from 11% in 2014.
Infonetics' fourth quarter 2014 (4Q14) and year-end Data Center Network Equipment vendor market share, size and forecast report tracks data center Ethernet switches, bare metal Ethernet switches, Ethernet switches sold in bundles, application delivery controllers (ADCs) and wide area network (WAN) optimization products.